Deaconess Community, Women’s History Month, and certainly Black Women’s History Month, invites us to celebrate the women who changed the course of history. Yet some of the most transformative acts of women’s leadership unfold in quieter ways, through the everyday choices women make to support, uplift, and invest in one another personally and professionally. And in this moment, when many Black …
Deaconess Community, On February 17, 2026, life slowed as we paused to honor the life and legacy of the Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. On that day, Rev. Jackson joined the lineage of ancestors who shaped the moral architecture of the late-20th-century Civil Rights movement. A pioneering force in multiracial democratic politics, Rev. Jackson was a builder of coalitions, a …
Deaconess Community, This past month has been marked by deep loss and moral reckoning. We grieve the deaths of Keith Porter Jr., a father of two; Renée Good, a mother and poet; and Alex Pretti, a nurse who devoted his life to caring for veterans and community alike. We grieve the deaths of those whose names we do not know …
Deaconess Community, As the year bends toward its close, the world itself feels like it is exhaling from the exhaustion of running without a moment to catch one single breath. Across faith traditions, sacred seasons have come and completed: the Jewish New Year sounded months ago, Muslim communities celebrated the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, and Christians now stand in …